Security forces prevented fresh protests in Iran on December 26 by overwhelming presence and arrests.
Social media users in Iran have posted videos of the heavy presence of security forces and riot police in many cities and townships in anticipation of a new round of protests since the evening of December 24.
Iranian security forces are preparing to prevent a fresh round of protests by slowing or shutting down the Internet in several cities and stationing security forces and riot police in the streets.
Fearing the 40th day memorial ceremony for Pouya Bakhtiari, one of the victims of the November protests, could start a fresh round of protests, Iran security forces arrested Pouya's family on Monday.
While Iranian officials have begun dismissing a Reuters report about 1,500 killed in protests, the claim that Khamenei ordered the crackdown is equally significant for Iranians.
According to three sources close to the Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei, he personally ordered his top security and government officials to do whatever it took to stop protesters in November.
A poll taken in Iran shows that the level of people's satisfaction with the Islamic Republic's performance is 15 percent in the capital city of Iran.
The son of a key ayatollah in 1980s says he has a second tape proving the government executed thousands in prisons in 1988.
Security entities in Iran tasked with suppressing dissent receive at least $9 billion from the government and have their own vast financial resources.
The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on December 19 announced sanctions against two Iranian judges, visa restrictions for the family members of those involved in the crackdown on protesters and re-designated Iran as a country of particular concern.
President Hassan Rouhani's administration has barred dozens of well-known reformist figures from running for the Iranian parliament.
The UNGA passed a resolution condemning Iran's human rights violations and urged Iran to free those arrested during the crackdown on protesters in November.
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